All, I'm curious what faculty have done in support of this problem on other campuses? Have they gone on strike, refused to sign their own contracts, discouraged students from enrolling in adjunct taught classes? What could we do? I'm honestly asking, not just trying to make a point. I don't know how to solve the problem but I know blaming administration and touting our (faculty) superiority to them (administrators) doesn't help, it only further justifies the marginalization of our voice.
Doug Doug Peterson, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 605.677.5295 ________________________________________ From: don allen [dap...@shaw.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 3:52 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Tragedy of An Adjunct Chris- I concur. But another important point that we don't want to lose sight of is the obscene disparity between what the faculty member was making and what the college president was making. Forgetting for a moment what "benefits" would be costed at, she was making no more than $25,000 a year while the president was making $700,000! That's a ratio of about 28 to one. In my college (with a strong union) I was making about $85,000 when I retired and the president was making about $250,000 or about 3 to one. I don't begrudge administrators a higher salary (frankly, I wouldn't want their job)but when the boss/worker salary ratio gets into double digits you have a serious injustice. -Don. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Green" <chri...@yorku.ca> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:13:41 AM Subject: Re: [tips] The Tragedy of An Adjunct We can quibble about the details of this particular case, or criticize the tone of this or that report all we want. What is indisputable is the increasing exploitation of short-term contract teaching labor in the North American academy. That is the issue. Do not get distracted from it by those whose aim is, frankly, to distract you from it. The current situation is an abomination and it should be corrected. Unfortunately, the people who run colleges and universities these days are too often people who do not have anything remotely resembling the qualifications of those they employ. They have little idea what the institution is really for, and they have less idea of how to facilitate those within it to do their highest quality (rather than highest quantity) work. Those are the people you should be angry at, not the woman who died, her grieving relative, or the union organizer who tried to improve things. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= On 2013-09-26, at 11:59 AM, Frieze, Irene H wrote: The university disputes some of the initial blog. See http://www.duqsm.com/vojtko-remembered-for-pride-eloquence/ . ............................................... Irene Hanson Frieze, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Business Administration and Women's Studies 3329 Sennott Square in the Department of Psychology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=28130 or send a blank email to leave-28130-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: dap...@shaw.ca . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98f18&n=T&l=tips&o=28133 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-28133-13157.966b795bc7f3ccb35e3da08aebe98...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: doug.peter...@usd.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc1c8&n=T&l=tips&o=28137 or send a blank email to leave-28137-12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=28138 or send a blank email to leave-28138-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
